Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants
May 7, 1987 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 7, 1987 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco Giants 11

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Walker lf 3 0 0 0
Sandberg 2b 4 1 2 1
Dawson rf 4 0 1 0
Durham 1b 4 0 1 0
Moreland 3b 3 0 1 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
  Mumphrey ph 1 0 0 0
  DiPino p 0 0 0 0
Dunston ss 4 0 0 0
Sundberg c 4 0 1 0
Martinez cf 4 0 1 0
Lynch p 2 0 0 0
  Trillo 3b 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 7 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Wilfong 2b 5 1 1 2
  Woodard 2b 0 0 0 0
Davis cf 4 0 0 0
Leonard lf 5 2 3 1
Maldonado rf 5 1 1 1
Aldrete 1b 3 3 2 0
Melvin c 4 2 2 3
Speier 3b 1 1 0 0
  Wasinger ph,3b 1 0 0 0
Williams ss 5 0 2 2
LaCoss p 3 1 0 0
  Robinson p 2 0 1 1
Totals 38 11 12 10
Chicago 000 010 000173
San Francisco 002 120 33x11120
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Lynch  L (1-2) 5.0 6 5 4 5 1
  Davis   2.0 2 3 1 2 1
  DiPino   1.0 4 3 2 0 2
Totals
8.0
12
11
7
7
4
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
LaCoss  W (3-1) 6.2 7 1 1 1 9
  Robinson  SV (6) 2.1 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
1
11

  E–Moreland (3), Dunston (4), Trillo (2).  2B–San Francisco Williams (2,off Lynch); Leonard (11,off Lynch); Melvin 2 (4,off Lynch,off R Davis); Aldrete (4,off DiPino).  HR–Chicago Sandberg (4,5th inning off LaCoss 0 on, 2 out), San Francisco Wilfong (1,3rd inning off Lynch 1 on, 0 out); Leonard (6,8th inning off DiPino 0 on, 1 out); Maldonado (6,8th inning off DiPino 0 on, 1 out).  IBB–Aldrete (1,by Lynch); Speier 2 (3,by Lynch,by R Davis).  SB–Sandberg (5,2nd base off LaCoss/Melvin).  CS–Leonard (4,2nd base by Lynch/Sundberg).  IBB–Lynch 2 (2,Aldrete,Speier); R Davis (1,Speier).  U-HP–Frank Pulli, 1B–Fred Brocklander, 2B–Bill Williams, 3B–John McSherry.  T–2:37.  A–12,228.
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